New Women-Only “W Series” Aims to Find Future Female F1 Talent

[phoenixikki]

Despite motorsport being one of the most gender-blind sports possible, the sight of a woman in a race car in a top series is unusual.

Only five women have ever raced a Formula One car, and the last to see the start lights was Lelle Lombardi, 42 years ago. When Susie Wolff drove a Williams in free practice in 2014, she was the first woman to participate in an F1 weekend in over 20 years. In 2018 it’s still newsworthy that a woman — Jamie Chadwick — won an F3 race for the first time, and household names like Danica Patrick are the exception rather than the rule. It’s a situation that needs to change.



W Series, announced this morning, hopes to be that change. It’s a free-to-enter single-seat racing series, exclusively open to women. Starting in 2019, the series will put 18-20 female racing drivers into identical cars for sprint races on some of Europe’s top circuits. There’s a $1.5m prize fund, with $500,000 going to the series’ winner.

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[Rygu]

Wait so it's women only?

It's that blatant sexism?

 

[Graves The Elder]

it's gonna be right up there with WNBA in viewership numbers

 

[Pliny Pete]

Well at least they wont kill anyone important when they crash all over the fuckin place

 

[Frank23]

Well at least they wont kill anyone important when they crash all over the fuckin place

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[OCGSC]

You want equality everybody must be able to join if good enough.